"Women complain about premenstrual while I feel it is the only time of month I can be myself." Roseanne Barr
Do we become mad with menstruation?
Do we become mad with menstruation?
Almost all the women we are different a few days before we have a menstrual period. This is a fact: the vast majority are new sensations and symptoms that can always be the same or to vary from month to month.
In general, many physicians such as encyclopedias and the Internet tend to label these feelings as negative symptoms when these symptoms piuede surprised, but not be negative ... who does not like surprises? A cobrades loos, of course.
Many of this change is strongly positive. But the doctors want us to believe we're sick, then the U.S. Mayo Clinic described on its website at Premenstrual Syndrome as a phase with symptoms such as swollen abdomen, pain in breasts, depression seizures with tears, irritable, certain food cravings, insomnia, muscle or joint pain, headaches or fatigue. [1]
In 1914 Leta Stetter Hollingworth hundred women gave a battery of tests to be carried out over several months to discover whether they actually yielding less at work during menstruation or had symptoms consistent with a work, and the results gave results that could be categorized into reliable conclusions. Each woman reacts differently and felt differently, whether they had a period or not. All subsequent studies resulted in resounding failures. Thus concluded that premenstrual syndrome is a condition invented false.
The first to talk about Dr Frank was a City of Chicago who coined the term premenstrual syndrome, stating that this disease affects 40 to 60% of women. Back pain, lethargy, exhaustion, insomnia, nausea, dizziness, depression, rage attacks, mood swings, bloating and breasts, mood swings, physical deterioration, gastrointestinal disorders., Cravings ... all this is part of the syndrome. Clear that Dr Frank forgot that anyone (male or female) feel any of these symptoms throughout the month, which could be talking also of "premenstrual syndrome male" ... or is it that a man who is for you to respond with grunts menstruating, when is growling to stop yelling, that six-hour nap and then peanut binge beer and then complain of swelling? And what cuanod next day you ask "What happened yesterday ta, who was s angry?" I answer "I do not know"?
The one who then instructed to popularize the "bad women" was a British physician named Katharina Dalton, who wrote thousands articles on his findings about women committing more crimes and suicides together before menstruation and five million were lost dollars annually due to absenteeism menstrual. He said that 45% of 276 psychiatric patients entered interned during menstruation. And scores of students fell during their menstrual periods. He wrote a book called "premenstrual syndrome" that husbands give to their wives saying, "You see I was right to say that the period you crazy?"
Depression, sadness, irritability, crying, sore breasts and abdomen, headaches, tiredness, poor concentration, amnesia, dizziness, insomnia, anxiety, edema, swelling, pain, diarrhea and general unease ... are some of the 150 symptoms that are attributed to the impending arrival of menstruation. This makes you ask the author Carol Tarvis "By God, with so many symptoms that cover almost every experienced man, who does not suffer from premenstrual syndrome?" The same author makes an interesting survey in his book "The devaluation of women" (Planeta 1992 ) on the number of items were made on the period from 1964 to 1989, and concludes with interesting observation was discussed a lot more of premenstrual syndrome in the 70's, when women made their first inroads into the paid labor market without that this situation was caused by a major war. This means that in each historical period in which participation of women in the labor market is considered a threat, we talk about menstruation as if it were a debilitating disease. Similarly, Janice Delaney said in his book "The Curse: A Cultural History of Menstruation" (1976) who has invented this disease called Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) when it has never been scientifically proven its existence, and has managed only what that the company wanted at that time was to make adoselescentes confident, bold, shameless and courageous ... in adult fearful, ashamed, sick and discouraged , let him step to the men in the labor market, they prefer to stay home to care children ... but Who cares? "Do not worry, dear: You keep quiet at home than the money I win."
1] http://www.vaginapagina.com/index.php?title=Menstruation
Image: Vagina Queen on horseback from the Viking mythology. 
Is premenstrual dysphoric disorder?
Psychologists have a header manual called DSM IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV), which lists all mental disorders and for having. In the same describes the symptoms, diagnosis and possible treatment is suggested. Only in the 1987 edition of the manual appeared the issue of sudden madness menstrual women, with the name of "premenstrual dysphoric disorder." And the operating head of all psychologists in the world says a woman suffering from this condition if you have five or more of the following symptoms: feeling sad, hopeless or self-deprecation, stress, anxiety or impatience to be extremely sensitive and mourn with easily, be irritable or angry, increased interpersonal conflicts, loss of interest in usual activities; rift in relations social, difficulty concentrating, feelings of fatigue, lethargy or lack of energy, marked changes in appetite, which sometimes can be accompanied by binge eating or a certain food cravings, sleep more than usual, or else, suffer insomnia, feeling be exceeded, "the limit", "not take it anymore" or out of control, and physical symptoms like breast tenderness or growth, headaches, bloating or weight gain, difficulty adjusting to clothing, shoes or rings. "
The manual says at least 75% of women experience premenstrual changes, 50% said they would you feel very different in days, and between 3% and 5% of women experience a lot of the symptoms described. Luckily the manual says that "there are very few systematic studies on the effect and stability of this disorder." Of course, this is an exclusively female condition, so why would someone take the trouble to study? However, the DSM-IV makes clear that the syndrome "should not be considered a mental disorder, and should only be treated therapeutically if the changes experienced by women interferes significantly with normal life"
Now, is it logical to consider something happens to most women is taken as a mental disease, for too much when there were formal and systematic studies on the syndrome? If we lose half a cup of blood per month, and it's natural that we look forward to replenish the lost calories with a sundae! What are you speaking anxiety?
course there are changes in premenstrual women. A friend who told him about it one day called me to ask: "Tell me one thing ... That disorder Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder ... or was it Disfonico? Because when I come, as they were hoarse cry ... ".
Many specialists were revealed to see if women really go worse before menstruation. Some doctors were responsible for asking many women keep a diary recounting their feelings every day for a month. It was discovered so many women feel grumpy and angry before the cycle, others feel that way during the cycle, and others later in the cycle. This would indicate that there is no such thing as premenstrual syndrome, but women disenchanted with their lives, they feel worse at different times. Coomo knowing about the world as women and society in which they live, but were upset is because they are too distracted. So all this premenstrual syndrome is the clinical name of the cultural malaise that feels any women in any patriarchal society is expected to be beautiful, skinny, meek and subdued. And if the first symptom is depression, well ... we have reason to be depressed!.
researcher Mary Brown Parlee made a thorough investigation by asking several women detailing their feelings and moods for 90 days, without explaining that it would be a study of menstruation. The results were striking: most of the women showed they felt much better before menstruation, which Parlee determined that - having a female disease .- should be called "euphoria premenstrual syndrome." But when I told women that had been the study, all swore that they felt worse before menstruation, although his personal notes say the opposite, is so convinced are we that we are a sick.
writer Emily Martin points out that the way in which women often detail the processes is always pejorative: menstruation is a failed pregnancy, where the rolls and lost the uterine wall, and menopause is the end of fertility, where lost reproductive capacity. However, while the stomach goes through a process similar to the uterus and nobody talks about falling apart and losing the mucus your stomach, but its walls are renewed, regenerate and produce more mucus , And the whole process is called "replacement of the lining of the stomach." But nobody talks about menstruation as the "replacement of the uterine wall, which is renewed, regenerated and produced endometrium, which is something that we always lose, like silver, key, glasses and the silhouette.
In a brochure of 1929 Kotex sanitary napkins kindly explain the process as "purification", providing a better category to menstruation, but suggesting that she is basically unclean. Tanta
pejorative connotation to the processes as menstruation and menopause female ... do not be adjacent the idea of \u200b\u200bloss, damage and failure precisely because they are things that only happen to women? To end all this would be better to have no uterus. We're headed for that: 40% of American women undergo hysterectomy, need it or not. And speaking of "remuneration hysterectomies, which are big business. Nancy Conger
The specialist says that PMS stems exclusively from a negative attitude toward the body and the menstrual cycle. "It's a moment that your sensitivity is higher, but it is in MABOS directions: positive and negative. If you notice your negative cycle, it captured only the negative. "
As was installed around the world the idea that PMS is experienced by 75-80% of women, if not all women felt the enfremas enough, it was decided that the Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder is experienced by 5-8% of women and causes them significant impairment or disability.
. Physicians clarify "how is reflected in each woman depends on genetic factors, neurobiological, and endocrine. But also is subject to cultural and historical variables. Hormonal cycles involve the whole body, so it is expected that a woman has changes in behavior, mood, weight, appetite, libido, energy level and body temperature different times of the cycle "
are synthesized in the ovary about 30 non-steroidal substances, such as growth factors, interleukins, catecholamines, stimulating and inhibitory peptides similar to hypothalamic substance P and vasopressin, among others.
She is a cocktail of hormones changing a roller coaster of estrogen and progesterone, which make his mood rises and falls in waves, which for physicians is the famous dysphoric disorder or emotional set of symptoms ... , behavioral and somatic presented at the end of the luteal phase and resolve with menstruation. " If it resolves with menstruation ... so called "Disorder"? To buy medicines, of course. They say that "a woman who develops the syndrome 20-25 years, can go from 1,500 to 3,000 days of suffering and disability until you reach menopause." They also claim that "the peak of symptom exacerbation occurs usually in the fourth decade of life "... Of course, agrees when one is more depressed for having served forty years!. Scientists like wirst
in 1975, showed that the free levels of tryptophan (an amino acid precursor of serotonin) fall with the onset of menstruation, and that the fall in levels of serotonin (the hormone of optimism and pleasure) is treated with antidepressants such as sertraline or fluoxetine. When I asked a woman gynecologist what to do to lower my level of premenstrual anxiety, gave me a prescription for Alplax, a sedative that left me bed and I was getting mas'ansiosa to see the grime around me and the clothes without ironing. But they say that the first source of tryptophan is the chocolate, banana and tomato, which also have lycopene, a natural antidepressant. So with cream of tomato soup and a bananasplit chocolate ice cream, washed down with delicious charlotte, we will raise our serotonin levels in much more natural and economic pharmacological antidepressants. Sprouts also have tryptophan, but do not know if you come before menstruation I can convince you to fill them with chocolate repollo.Del I do not care: all we jump headlong into it without knowing which is the major source of serotonin to your scope. So you know that all doctors want to mostarra is normal for women like a padeciemiento because it makes the business of pharmaceutical companies.
The truth is that although the days prior to menstruation us feel strange, these changes are more interesting than disabling. Just connect with ourselves, and listen to our cuerpo.Cuando says: "I want chocolate NOW "you just have to obey.
Is premenstrual dysphoric disorder? Psychologists have a header manual called DSM IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV), which lists all mental disorders and for having. In the same describes the symptoms, diagnosis and possible treatment is suggested. Only in the 1987 edition of the manual appeared the issue of sudden madness menstrual women, with the name of "premenstrual dysphoric disorder." And the operating head of all psychologists in the world says a woman suffering from this condition if you have five or more of the following symptoms: feeling sad, hopeless or self-deprecation, stress, anxiety or impatience to be extremely sensitive and mourn with easily, be irritable or angry, increased interpersonal conflicts, loss of interest in usual activities; rift in relations social, difficulty concentrating, feelings of fatigue, lethargy or lack of energy, marked changes in appetite, which sometimes can be accompanied by binge eating or a certain food cravings, sleep more than usual, or else, suffer insomnia, feeling be exceeded, "the limit", "not take it anymore" or out of control, and physical symptoms like breast tenderness or growth, headaches, bloating or weight gain, difficulty adjusting to clothing, shoes or rings. "
The manual says at least 75% of women experience premenstrual changes, 50% said they would you feel very different in days, and between 3% and 5% of women experience a lot of the symptoms described. Luckily the manual says that "there are very few systematic studies on the effect and stability of this disorder." Of course, this is an exclusively female condition, so why would someone take the trouble to study? However, the DSM-IV makes clear that the syndrome "should not be considered a mental disorder, and should only be treated therapeutically if the changes experienced by women interferes significantly with normal life"
Now, is it logical to consider something happens to most women is taken as a mental disease, for too much when there were formal and systematic studies on the syndrome? If we lose half a cup of blood per month, and it's natural that we look forward to replenish the lost calories with a sundae! What are you speaking anxiety?
course there are changes in premenstrual women. A friend who told him about it one day called me to ask: "Tell me one thing ... That disorder Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder ... or was it Disfonico? Because when I come, as they were hoarse cry ... ".
Many specialists were revealed to see if women really go worse before menstruation. Some doctors were responsible for asking many women keep a diary recounting their feelings every day for a month. It was discovered so many women feel grumpy and angry before the cycle, others feel that way during the cycle, and others later in the cycle. This would indicate that there is no such thing as premenstrual syndrome, but women disenchanted with their lives, they feel worse at different times. Coomo knowing about the world as women and society in which they live, but were upset is because they are too distracted. So all this premenstrual syndrome is the clinical name of the cultural malaise that feels any women in any patriarchal society is expected to be beautiful, skinny, meek and subdued. And if the first symptom is depression, well ... we have reason to be depressed!.
researcher Mary Brown Parlee made a thorough investigation by asking several women detailing their feelings and moods for 90 days, without explaining that it would be a study of menstruation. The results were striking: most of the women showed they felt much better before menstruation, which Parlee determined that - having a female disease .- should be called "euphoria premenstrual syndrome." But when I told women that had been the study, all swore that they felt worse before menstruation, although his personal notes say the opposite, is so convinced are we that we are a sick.
writer Emily Martin points out that the way in which women often detail the processes is always pejorative: menstruation is a failed pregnancy, where the rolls and lost the uterine wall, and menopause is the end of fertility, where lost reproductive capacity. However, while the stomach goes through a process similar to the uterus and nobody talks about falling apart and losing the mucus your stomach, but its walls are renewed, regenerate and produce more mucus , And the whole process is called "replacement of the lining of the stomach." But nobody talks about menstruation as the "replacement of the uterine wall, which is renewed, regenerated and produced endometrium, which is something that we always lose, like silver, key, glasses and the silhouette.
In a brochure of 1929 Kotex sanitary napkins kindly explain the process as "purification", providing a better category to menstruation, but suggesting that she is basically unclean. Tanta
pejorative connotation to the processes as menstruation and menopause female ... do not be adjacent the idea of \u200b\u200bloss, damage and failure precisely because they are things that only happen to women? To end all this would be better to have no uterus. We're headed for that: 40% of American women undergo hysterectomy, need it or not. And speaking of "remuneration hysterectomies, which are big business. Nancy Conger
The specialist says that PMS stems exclusively from a negative attitude toward the body and the menstrual cycle. "It's a moment that your sensitivity is higher, but it is in MABOS directions: positive and negative. If you notice your negative cycle, it captured only the negative. "
As was installed around the world the idea that PMS is experienced by 75-80% of women, if not all women felt the enfremas enough, it was decided that the Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder is experienced by 5-8% of women and causes them significant impairment or disability.
. Physicians clarify "how is reflected in each woman depends on genetic factors, neurobiological, and endocrine. But also is subject to cultural and historical variables. Hormonal cycles involve the whole body, so it is expected that a woman has changes in behavior, mood, weight, appetite, libido, energy level and body temperature different times of the cycle "
are synthesized in the ovary about 30 non-steroidal substances, such as growth factors, interleukins, catecholamines, stimulating and inhibitory peptides similar to hypothalamic substance P and vasopressin, among others.
She is a cocktail of hormones changing a roller coaster of estrogen and progesterone, which make his mood rises and falls in waves, which for physicians is the famous dysphoric disorder or emotional set of symptoms ... , behavioral and somatic presented at the end of the luteal phase and resolve with menstruation. " If it resolves with menstruation ... so called "Disorder"? To buy medicines, of course. They say that "a woman who develops the syndrome 20-25 years, can go from 1,500 to 3,000 days of suffering and disability until you reach menopause." They also claim that "the peak of symptom exacerbation occurs usually in the fourth decade of life "... Of course, agrees when one is more depressed for having served forty years!. Scientists like wirst
in 1975, showed that the free levels of tryptophan (an amino acid precursor of serotonin) fall with the onset of menstruation, and that the fall in levels of serotonin (the hormone of optimism and pleasure) is treated with antidepressants such as sertraline or fluoxetine. When I asked a woman gynecologist what to do to lower my level of premenstrual anxiety, gave me a prescription for Alplax, a sedative that left me bed and I was getting mas'ansiosa to see the grime around me and the clothes without ironing. But they say that the first source of tryptophan is the chocolate, banana and tomato, which also have lycopene, a natural antidepressant. So with cream of tomato soup and a bananasplit chocolate ice cream, washed down with delicious charlotte, we will raise our serotonin levels in much more natural and economic pharmacological antidepressants. Sprouts also have tryptophan, but do not know if you come before menstruation I can convince you to fill them with chocolate repollo.Del I do not care: all we jump headlong into it without knowing which is the major source of serotonin to your scope. So you know that all doctors want to mostarra is normal for women like a padeciemiento because it makes the business of pharmaceutical companies.
The truth is that although the days prior to menstruation us feel strange, these changes are more interesting than disabling. Just connect with ourselves, and listen to our cuerpo.Cuando says: "I want chocolate NOW "you just have to obey.
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